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|name = Beddome's day gecko<br />
|status = DD <br />
|status_system = IUCN3.1<br />
|status_ref = <ref name=IUCN>{{Cite iucn|author=[[Chelmala Srinivasulu|Srinivasulu C]], [[Bhargavi Srinivasulu|Srinivasulu B]]|title=''Cnemaspis beddomei ''|volume=2013|page=e.T172640A1357426|date=2013|doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2013-1.RLTS.T172640A1357426.en|access-date=3 January 2018}}</ref><br />
|taxon = Cnemaspis beddomei<br />
|authority = ([[William Theobald|Theobald]], 1876)<br />
|synonyms = *''Gymnodactylus marmoratus'' <br/>{{small|[[Richard Henry Beddome|Beddome]], 1870}} <br/>(preoccupied)<br />
*''Gymnodactylus beddomei'' <br/>{{small|Theobald, 1876}} <br/>(''[[nomen novum]]'')<br />
*''Gonatodes marmoratus'' <br/>{{small|— [[George Albert Boulenger|Boulenger]], 1885}}<br />
*''Cnemaspis beddomei'' <br/>{{small|— [[Malcolm Arthur Smith|M.A. Smith]], 1935}}<br />
|synonyms_ref = <ref name=RDB>"''Cnemaspis beddomei'' ". The Reptile Database. www.reptile-database.org.</ref><br />
}}<br />
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'''Beddome's day gecko''' (''Cnemaspis beddomei)'' is a [[species]] of [[lizard]] in the [[Family (biology)|family]] [[Gekkonidae]]. The species is [[Endemism|endemic]] to [[India]].<br />
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==Etymology==<br />
''C. beddomei'' is named after [[Richard Henry Beddome]], 1830–1911, a British army officer and botanist.<ref>Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). ''The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles''. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. {{ISBN|978-1-4214-0135-5}}. (''Cnemaspis beddomei'', p. 21).</ref><br />
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==Geographic range==<br />
''C. beddomei'' is found in the [[Western Ghats]], [[India]].<ref name=IUCN/> <br />
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The [[Type locality (biology)|type locality]] is "South Tinnevelly and Travankor hills 3-5000 feet"<ref>[[William Theobald|Theobald W]] (1876).</ref> (914-1,524 meters).<br />
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==Ecology==<br />
''C. beddomei'' is [[Diurnality|diurnal]] and is found under rocks in [[forest]]s; it feeds mainly on insects.<ref name=IUCN/><br />
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==Reproduction==<br />
''C. beddomei'' is [[Oviparity|oviparous]].<ref name=RDB/><br />
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==Conservation status==<br />
The exact threats to ''C. beddomei'' are unknown but may be human disturbance. However, it exists in protected areas [[Kalakkad Mundanthurai Tiger Reserve]] and [[Meghamalai]].<ref name=IUCN/><br />
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==References==<br />
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==Further reading==<br />
*[[Richard Henry Beddome|Beddome RH]] (1870). "Descriptions of some new lizards from the Madras Presidency". ''Madras Monthly Journal of Medical Science'' '''1''': 30–35. (''Gymnodactylus marmoratus'', new species, p.&nbsp;31).<br />
*[[George Albert Boulenger|Boulenger GA]] (1885). ''Catalogue of the Lizards in the British Museum (Natural History). Second Edition. Volume I. Geckonidæ, Eublepharidæ, Uroplatidæ, Pygopodidæ, Agamidæ''. London: Trustees of the British Museum. (Taylor and Francis, printers). xii + 436 pp. + Plates I–XXXII. (''Gonatodes marmoratus'', p.&nbsp;67 + Plate VI, figure 4).<br />
*Boulenger GA (1890). ''The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma. Reptilia and Batrachia.'' London: Secretary of State for India in Council. (Taylor and Francis, printers). xviii + 541 pp. (''Gonatodes marmoratus'', p.&nbsp;76).<br />
*[[Herbert Rösler (herpetologist)|Rösler H]] (2000). "''Kommentierte Liste der rezent, subrezent und fossil bekannten Geckotaxa (Reptilia: Gekkonomorpha)''". ''Gekkota'' '''2''': 28–153. (''Cnemaspis beddomei'', p. 62). (in German).<br />
*[[Malcolm Arthur Smith|Smith MA]] (1935). ''The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma. Reptilia and Amphibia. Vol. II.—Sauria.'' London: Secretary of State for India in Council. (Taylor and Francis, printers). xiii + 440 pp. + Plate I + 2 maps. (''Cnemaspis beddomei'', p.&nbsp;71).<br />
*[[William Theobald|Theobald W]] (1876). ''Descriptive Catalogue of the Reptiles of British India''. Calcutta: Thacker, Spink and Co. x + 238 pp. + Synopsis, i–xxxviii pp. + Appendix i–xiii pp. (''Gymnodactylus beddomei'', new species, pp.&nbsp;88–89).<br />
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==External links==<br />
*{{NRDB species|genus=Cnemaspis|species=beddomei}}<br />
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[[Category:Cnemaspis]]<br />
[[Category:Reptiles of India]]<br />
[[Category:Endemic fauna of the Western Ghats]]<br />
[[Category:Reptiles described in 1870]]<br />
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